Bowden, Yealmpton

Bowden is a historic estate in the parish of Yealmpton in Devon, England.

From the 15th century until 1748 the manor house was for eight generations[1] the seat of a junior branch of the Copleston family of Copplestone.

The manor house was largely rebuilt in the 19th century and, together with some of its outbuildings, now serves as a farmhouse.

[2] The earliest holder of the estate recorded by the Devonshire historian Sir William Pole (d.1635), was John de Bowdon.

[4] In 1753, after the death of Thomas Coplestone in 1748, his executors sold Bowden to William Bastard[12] (1727-1782) of nearby Kitley in the parish of Yealmpton,[13] who was gazetted as a baronet in 1779 but as he took no steps towards passing the patent the title was not used by him or his descendants.